Center for Digital Storytelling: While the term "digital storytelling" has been used to describe a wide variety of new media practices, what best describes our approach is its emphasis on first-person narrative, meaningful workshop processes, and participatory production methods.
Reading Rockets: Easy-to-digest research, tips and activities for helping children learn to read This site is filled with practical information in the form of print, podcasts and videos.
FreeReading.net: A free open-source early literacy program that includes lessons that build key reading and writing skills necessary for the early primary grades
eLearn Assignments: http://www.teachhub.com/elearn-assignments (You can get a trial for free) -eLearn Assignments helps improve reading comprehension while incorporating current events into your curriculum.
Museum Box- involves visual literacy and writing- http://museumbox.e2bn.org Zoo Burst- Make your own 3D Pop Up Books Free- you can read those online- create on for students to read-
K-6 Common core aligned reading lessons AND reading passages from literary to non-fiction with Questions: http://www.readworks.org/
38 ways to use your Interactive Whiteboard (also includes ways to incorporate Google Earth, Google Docs, etc. into the classroom: http://www.ncs-tech.org/?p=3087
Teaching with Primary Documents- lesson ideas/primary document resources- http://docsteach.org/
Check out some of our favorite read aloud resources for teaching Phonemic Awareness, Alphabetic Principle (Basic & Advanced Code), Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension! http://www.readingresource.net/readingresources-II.html
ClassTopic.com-http://www.classtopic.com/ Neat site with great research articles on various topics that are both informative and interesting for teens and MS students.
HIGH SCHOOL - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/us/sexual-harassment-in-online-gaming-stirs-anger.html?_r=1 This is a great example of Standard: W.9-10.6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
Watch Thirteen- Use video clips to add to your curriculum- build background knowledge, generate interest. I searched bullying for example and came up with multiple videos. Cross content and grade levels. http://watch.thirteen.org/
Set in the early years of the 21st century and told through text, sound, images, music and games, Inanimate Alice is the story of Alice and her imaginary digital friend Brad. Uses text, images, music, sound effects, puzzles and games to illustrate and enhance the narrative.
Instructables- How-To Reading with pictures/movies. Students can create their own for publication! http://www.instructables.com/
TED-Ed has just launched a free set of tools that allow teachers to create a customized lessons from existing videos on TED, YouTube or YouTube for Schools.
Once you have selected a video, it will publish to it’s own unique URL. You can share the lesson with students and others via e-mail, Facebook, or Twitter. It will exist on its own unique page on TED-Ed, and you can decide who gets to see that page. In addition to framing a video for your intended audience, you can create multiple choice and open-ended questions, and add additional readings or activities to each lesson you create
KY Literacy Celebration: http://www.kentuckyliteracy.org/resources This site celebrates literacy with First Lady Jane Beshear! The site includes resources such as Literacy Assessment tools which allow you to make decisions about commercially produced literacy assessments. There is also a clearinghouse of literacy resources and literacy links available to educators.
Online Books and Periodicals
Silly Books
Tumble Books: ebooks for kids
Ebooks for young readers from UVa
Amazing Adventure Series: Read along books and movies
Time for Kids
Scholastic News
See more below- Reading Passages and Video
Web Tools for Reading:
http://techtoolsforreading.wikispaces.com/Web+2.0+Meets+Reading+2.0 Tools For reading Instruction
http://www.web2teachingtools.com/ Web 2.0 Teaching Tools- information literacy link
http://issuu.com/naomiharm/docs/web_2.0_nets_aligned_spring_2010 Web 2.0 NETS Aligned Tools
More:
VoiceThread for Education
Technology Tools for Teaching Reading
Wikireadia: http://www.readingforlife.org.uk/wikireadia/index.php?title=Welcome_to_Wikireadia
Storychasers
GoogleLitTrips
MadLibs
Character Scrapbook: A reader's response activity to analyze the characters in any book
Using Wikis in the Library Media Center
Blogging Literature Circles
Literature Circles @Web English Teacher
Book Wink: Video booktalks for kids
Book Leads
Hamlet Blog
Hamlet Wiki
Literactive
Starfall
Tarheel Reader
Speakaboos
Center for Digital Storytelling: While the term "digital storytelling" has been used to describe a wide variety of new media practices, what best describes our approach is its emphasis on first-person narrative, meaningful workshop processes, and participatory production methods.
Reinforcing Reading Skills with Interactive Websites
75 Online/Interactive Resources for HS English/Language Arts- http://www.myweb4ed.com/blog/75-online-and-interactive-resources-for-high-school-secondary-english-language-arts/
Lessons and Instructional Tools
Reading Rockets: Easy-to-digest research, tips and activities for helping children learn to read This site is filled with practical information in the form of print, podcasts and videos.
FreeReading.net: A free open-source early literacy program that includes lessons that build key reading and writing skills necessary for the early primary grades
eLearn Assignments: http://www.teachhub.com/elearn-assignments (You can get a trial for free) -eLearn Assignments helps improve reading comprehension while incorporating current events into your curriculum.
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short readings with related activities across the content. Online reading resources: http://www.livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=101199
Schmoop- Summaries/Why should I care? Questions, quizzes on lots of literature selections: http://www.shmoop.com/literature
Livebinder with Reading and Writing Websites and Tools: http://www.livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=275752
Practice summarizing with short texts: http://www.englishdaily626.com/summary.php?023
Elementary reading resources: http://www.alline.org/euro/ereading.html
Pinterest Board- Writing prompts based on images- http://pinterest.com/simplysuzy/reading-skills-and-strategies/
Museum Box- involves visual literacy and writing- http://museumbox.e2bn.org Zoo Burst- Make your own 3D Pop Up Books Free- you can read those online- create on for students to read-
http://www.zooburst.com/index.php K-5 Resources and games for reading- http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2literacy.html
Teacher’s Use of Symbaloo for Flipped Classroom Instruction- http://edu.symbaloo.com/
Digital Dialogue- http://digitaldialogue.pbworks.com/w/page/47205415/Digital%20Dialogue (Great site that shows applications to reading and writing for each tool!!!)
Pre-reading and reading resources- http://www.starfall.com/
Text Mapping Strategy: http://www.textmapping.org/overview.html
K-6 Common core aligned reading lessons AND reading passages from literary to non-fiction with Questions: http://www.readworks.org/
38 ways to use your Interactive Whiteboard (also includes ways to incorporate Google Earth, Google Docs, etc. into the classroom: http://www.ncs-tech.org/?p=3087
Short readings with MC questions- http://www.eslreadinglessons.com/
Lesson Ideas to integrate Technology in the classroom- all levels- http://schristensen.basd.k12.wi.us/lessonideas/middleschool/
Web 2.0 Tools to teach Literacy Strategies- http://www.peterpappas.com/2011/03/how-to-use-web-20-teach-literacy-strategies-struggling-readers.html#content
Teaching with Primary Documents- lesson ideas/primary document resources- http://docsteach.org/
Check out some of our favorite read aloud resources for teaching Phonemic Awareness, Alphabetic Principle (Basic & Advanced Code), Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension! http://www.readingresource.net/readingresources-II.html
K-6 Into the Book- http://reading.ecb.org/student/entry.html?login=angie00146 Reading strategies tutorial- videos to practice, etc.
Test Yourself- Short questions related to various reading strategies- MS/HS level- Previous questions can be seen from this page- Great for a bell-ringer! http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/test-yourself-critical-thinking-aug-3-2012/
Teacher’s Domain- http://www.teachersdomain.org/special/adlit/ MS Literacy Lessons
High quality, Open source, free reading Intervention Program for grades PK-6- http://free-reading.net/index.php?title=Main_Page
Reading Passages/Video:
ClassTopic.com- http://www.classtopic.com/ Neat site with great research articles on various topics that are both informative and interesting for teens and MS students.
Non-Fiction Detectives- http://www.nonfictiondetectives.com/ Book Review of non-fiction for children ( lots of science!)
RefDesk- http://www.refdesk.com/ Magazines, newspapers, stories of the day, search by topic (bottom of the page)
Digital Text Bins- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Umm-p6mO0w5qtI2S-6Km7_p8MAp5vAxbA32hXqPTcJg/edit?pli=1 A “Text Bin” with various readings about different topics.
Channel One Video and article as well as a chance for students to respond with their view- http://www.channelone.com/your-turn/a-religious-tradition-question-/ (example)
Series of 3-11 Readings across Genres- http://www.smarterbalanced.org/smarter-balanced-assessments/ (also has ELA Writing Rubrics for CC Writing Standards/genres)
HIGH SCHOOL - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/us/sexual-harassment-in-online-gaming-stirs-anger.html?_r=1 This is a great example of Standard: W.9-10.6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
Great tool for informational and argumentative writing- these news articles have related questions and the 5 W’s and H. http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/sexual-harassment-in-the-gaming-community/
Kids Post- Washington Post- http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost
Tons of stories read aloud for K-HS- http://www.storybee.org/index.html (listening only)
Free online audiobooks- http://storynory.com/
Watch Thirteen- Use video clips to add to your curriculum- build background knowledge, generate interest. I searched bullying for example and came up with multiple videos. Cross content and grade levels. http://watch.thirteen.org/
K-4 Fairy tales to read or heard read aloud- other extras with each story- http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/curriculum/literacy/lit_site/html/fiction/fairytale2/fairytale.htm#
K-4 Online stories to read- http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks1/english/story_telling/index.htm includes sequencing activities, etc.
K-3 Gingerbread Man story to read- http://www.topmarks.co.uk/stories/gingerbread.htm
K-3 Pied Piper- http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/curriculum/literacy/lit_site/html/fiction/Pied_Piper/start.htm includes llinked words to a glossary, bio of author and activities.
K-4 Poetry read aloud- http://www.starfall.com/n/level-b/poetry/load.htm?f illustrated poems
K-5- Short, informational articles about different playground games - http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/studentssite/playgroundgames.htm Would be a great springboard to write a how-to or informational piece.
3-6 Animal Stories- informational reading- includes video/sound if wanted, facts and photos to read, a map, etc. http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/adelie-penguin/
Storyline Online: An online video program staring Screen Actors Guild members reading storybooks
Reading Zombie- Book Reviews for and by Middle Schoolers- http://readingzombies.blogspot.com/
Inanimate Alice- Online Animated Story- very cool! http://www.inanimatealice.com/index.html
Set in the early years of the 21st century and told through text, sound, images, music and games, Inanimate Alice is the story of Alice and her imaginary digital friend Brad. Uses text, images, music, sound effects, puzzles and games to illustrate and enhance the narrative.
Instructables- How-To Reading with pictures/movies. Students can create their own for publication! http://www.instructables.com/
Ted-Ed.com- http://www.youtube.com/TEDEducation
TED-Ed has just launched a free set of tools that allow teachers to create a customized lessons from existing videos on TED, YouTube or YouTube for Schools.
Once you have selected a video, it will publish to it’s own unique URL. You can share the lesson with students and others via e-mail, Facebook, or Twitter. It will exist on its own unique page on TED-Ed, and you can decide who gets to see that page. In addition to framing a video for your intended audience, you can create multiple choice and open-ended questions, and add additional readings or activities to each lesson you create
How Stuff Works- http://www.howstuffworks.com/
(great for getting ideas, short readings on informational/how-to pieces. Be aware that some topics may not be age appropriate for all audiences)
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=18376 8th Grade Reading resources
Historical Fiction Books on a timeline offers book reviews, summaries and in some cases excerpts from the book- http://www.ujhs.com/booktalk/historical_fiction.html
Twurdy- http://www.twurdy.com/ Searches for articles by READING LEVEL!
More online E-Texts for kids- http://www.wegivebooks.org/books/mammals
Instructables- short how-to’s with pictures and reading- http://www.instructables.com/
Animated Stories- http://fivejs.com/mightybookjr-com-reading-station/
Share What You are Reading: A place for students to write, share and read other book reviews online.
Wonderopolis- video and reading opportunities in many categories: http://wonderopolis.org/category/reading/
www.gapminder.org - animated statistics about our country and the world.
Blogs for and by Teens
American Studies Ning- http://fremdamericanstudies.ning.com/profiles/blog/list
Raw Ink- http://rawinkonline.com/profiles/blog/list
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives- http://ordinarypeopleextraordinarylives.edublogs.org/
Specific to Common Core:
CCS aligned to texts- http://listbuilder.scholastic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StandardsBrowseView?gc=KY (click on state and see left sidebar for grade level and click on PDF)
10 Tech Tools to help Teach the Common Core Standards - http://catlintucker.com/2012/05/10-tech-tools-to-effectively-teach-the-common-core-standards-english-math/
More Websites and resources devoted to the Common Core- http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/commoncore
Technology to Support the Common Core- http://karenbrooks.wikispaces.com/Technology+to+Support+the+Common+Core+K-8+in+ELA+and+Math
Other Resources to Support Reading Instruction:
KY Literacy Celebration: http://www.kentuckyliteracy.org/resources This site celebrates literacy with First Lady Jane Beshear! The site includes resources such as Literacy Assessment tools which allow you to make decisions about commercially produced literacy assessments. There is also a clearinghouse of literacy resources and literacy links available to educators.
Reading and Technology Blog- http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/talkowski/
Reading Text Online: Research-
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/percent-text-read.html
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/